DEF LEPPARD First Strike LP Rare withdrawn 1985 Near-MINT Joe Elliott RICK ALLEN
  $   90

 


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Visually graded vinyl NEAR-MINT
Jacket VG+; tear on jacket (see pictures) on top right corner maybe due to removal of Price Sticker
First Strike is a record of Def Leppard. The album contains seven demo recordings. The majority of the record is comprised of five demo recordings of songs that would all be revisited and rerecorded, in sometimes very different versions, for their first album On Through the Night. 
The first and last song ("Heat Street" and "Glad I'm Alive"), along with the third song ("See the Lights') have never been released anywhere else. The tracks were originally recorded in 1978 at Fairview Music Recordings in Hull and remixed in August 1984 at "Hank's Studio", Germany. Following this the tracks were promptly released as First Strike in Holland and Belgium in 1985 without the authorisation of the band and their managers despite former manager Frank Stuart-Brown's apparent quote on the back cover 
 The band and their management took the two former managers to court to remove the album from the marketplace, as they were unhappy with the recordings, and the judge ruled in favor of the band. First Strike did however sell several thousand copies, in which the band also won a suit for a portion of the royalties.
 Even from the beginning, First Strike was questionable whether it was an official release or not, due to it being released against the band's wishes, much like Bob Dylan's Dylan album. However, since the court case, First Strike has never been considered part of Def Leppard's official discography and has been deleted.


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